“TERROR IS nothing more than justice”—this is how Ridley Scott’s biopic on Napoleon, released in 2023, begins. A line so hauntingly resonant on the twenty-third anniversary of 9/11. Napoleon starts with the terror of the French Revolution and the guillotine. Which claimed not only the French Emperor Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, but … Continue reading "The Angel of History"

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